Buhari is Nigeria’s Mandela, he would do only one term, fix the country and move on – Okorocha

Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State has compared the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari to late Dr. Nelson Mandela of South Africa and urged Nigerians to elect him as the country's next president to steer and stabilise the ship of state. Addressing Imo State indigenes who gathered under the banner of Imo State Towns Development Association Lagos (ISTDAL) at a colourful reception for him at Teslim Balogun Stadium in Lagos, Okorocha who spoke in Igbo language said, 

"Buhari is the Mandela of our time. At 72, what does he want? He will do one term, fix the country and move on and then power will be come back to the South. When power rotates to the South, the South-East will have it in 2019 because the South-West has had it through Chief Olusegun Obasanjo and the South-South through Dr Goodluck Jonathan. '' 

He also urged Ndigbo to vote out PDP, claiming that under the present PDP-led Goodluck Jonathan administration, Igbo's have been marinalised. "Under President Jonathan administration, the South-East is not among the five topmost positions in the country (President, Vice President, Senate President, Chief Justice of the Federation, Speaker of the House of Representatives), does not have any of the service chiefs, Inspector General of Police, Controller of Customs, Immigration, Civil Defence, etc. We only have controller of Prisons. This is not fair," Okorocha said.